Women are the pioneers of human civilization and the promoter of social progress.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core has stood at the strategic height of the overall development of the Party and the country, planned the Party’s women’s work in the new era, put forward a series of innovative new ideas, new views and new requirements, leading our country’s women’s cause to carry forward the past and keep pace with the times, achieving historic achievements and undergoing historic changes.
For ten years, under the high attention of the Party and the country, the steady development of my country's women's cause has been steadily developed and the status of women's achievements marks the scale of progress of the times, and the protection of women's rights and interests demonstrates the height of national civilization.
Over the past decade, the Party Central Committee has made a series of great significance and far-reaching decisions and deployments, which have effectively promoted the process of gender equality in my country and opened up a broad road for the development of women's cause.
system guarantee is more powerful -
"Adhere to the basic national policy of equality between men and women, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of women and children" is written into the reports of the 18th and 19th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China; "Pay attention to the construction of family education and family style, and protect the rights and interests of women and children" is written into the third historical resolution of the Party.
Both the "13th Five-Year Plan" and "14th Five-Year Plan" outlines have separate chapters to make arrangements for promoting the development of women and children. The "14th Five-Year Plan" outline has the first "Strengthening Family Construction" special festival to promote the simultaneous and coordinated development of women and children's undertakings and family construction with the economy and society.
development plan is more comprehensive -
Based on the realization of the goals of the China Women and Children's Development Outline from 2011 to 2020, the country has promulgated and implemented another ten-year work plan.
"China Women's Development Outline (2021-2030)" proposes 75 main goals and 93 strategic measures from 8 fields, and plans and deploys the goals and tasks of women's development in the next decade.
The legal system is more sound -
Anti-Domestic Violence Law is promulgated and implemented to fully protect women's safety; the criminal law has been revised many times to strengthen the protection of women and severely punish related criminal behaviors...
Regulations and policies Gender Equality Assessment Mechanism has been established in 31 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, providing solid mechanism guarantees for promoting gender equality and women's development from the source.
It is driven by a series of decisions and deployments of the Party and the government that my country's women's development has made significant progress.
Women's health has greatly improved. In 2021, the maternal mortality rate in my country dropped to 161/100,000, and my country's core maternal and child health indicators are among the top middle- and high-income countries in the world. The average life expectancy of women has increased to 80.88 years.
Women's education level has been significantly improved. In 2020, the average number of education for the population aged 15 and above in the country was 9.91 years, and the average number of education for women was 9.59 years. The gender gap in compulsory education has been basically eliminated, and more than half of the female students in higher education undergraduate and junior college students have been eliminated.
Women's social security level continues to improve. In 2020, more than 600 million women participated in basic medical insurance. About half of the nearly 100 million poor people have achieved poverty alleviation.
Women's participation in economic development is more in-depth. More than 40% of the employed people in the whole society, and more than 55% of the entrepreneurs in the Internet field account for 55%. In 2021, women accounted for about 45.8%.
Women's participation in decision-making and management continues to improve. The proportion of female representatives of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, female representatives of the 13th National People's Congress and female members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference increased by 1.14, 1.50 and 2.55 percentage points respectively compared with the previous session.
Over the past decade, the equal rights of women in my country in various fields of politics, economy, culture, society and family life have been better realized, and respecting and caring for women has gradually become the national will, civic literacy and social trend.
For ten years, the vast majority of women have developed with the times and made progress with the motherland, and contributed women's strength to all undertakings of the Party and the country. "Go to the place where the motherland needs it most!" Upholding this belief, Beijing girl Lu Shengmei has been rooted in Jiaxian People's Hospital in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province. She has not feared hardships and has worked for more than 50 years. She said: "I will go wherever my motherland needs me. This is my oath."
Shengmei was free to treat the children at home in Jiaxian (photo taken on January 16). Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Tao Ming
Youth competition, reflecting the glory of the times.Countless women's flowers are like plum blossoms, choosing to root themselves in hot land, devote themselves to their dedication, and actively devote themselves to the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
In the fertile soil of rural revitalization, they master a skill to drive the people to increase their income and become rich; at the forefront of scientific and technological research, they respond to challenges, devote themselves to research, and overcome difficulties; in the fight against the epidemic, they stand up and go against the danger; in the wave of innovation and entrepreneurship, they are fearlessly restrained, break through themselves, and show a moving style of self-confidence and self-improvement... Excellent women from all walks of life shoulder heavy responsibilities and contribute women's strength to economic and social development with practical actions.
"Women's Poverty Alleviation Action", "Women's Action for Rural Revitalization", "Women's Action for Science and Technology Innovation"... The Women's Federation organized a wide range of women's achievements and activities to help women in the new era broaden their world and realize their life value.
Over the past ten years, a large number of advanced models have emerged, including 3,985 national March 8 Red Flag Bearers, 2,226 national March 8 Red Flag Groups, and 5,493 national women's model of achievement. Their deeds outline the most beautiful silhouettes of striving women and show the era style of women who are not as good as men.
Among them, there are Tu Youyou, the Nobel Prize winner in Physiology or Medicine who has devoted himself to decades of research, inheritance and innovation, and is committed to making traditional Chinese medicine benefit all mankind; there are Liu Yang, the "hero astronaut" who overcomes many difficulties, from Shenzhou 9 to Shenzhou 14, and the second hit of the sky; there are Zhang Guimei, the "principal mother" who has been rooted in the front line of frontier education for more than 40 years and helped nearly 2,000 girls get admitted to universities and get out of the mountains; there are Huang Wenxiu, the first secretary in the village who gave up the opportunity to stay in a big city, returned to his hometown to contribute, and freeze his young life on the road to poverty alleviation...
is a role model for women, leading the progress. In the mutual inspiration of the progress of the times and personal struggles, the vast majority of women devote themselves to great causes with their courage to make new achievements and write new historical glory with hard work and wisdom.
Over the past decade, the Women's Federation has continuously deepened reforms and promoted the high-quality development of various work
"The Grid Women's Council has helped my family solve the big problems." Grandma Li and her husband from Longju Town, Dongying District, Dongying City, Shandong Province suffer from chronic diseases and have difficulty in family life. After understanding the situation, the Longju Town Grid Women's Federation organized a meeting for assistance activities, and improved the living conditions of Grandma Li's family through donations from caring enterprises and regular household visits by volunteers.
Women's Council is a microcosm of the reform of grassroots women's federation organizations in recent years. In order to improve the working capacity of grassroots women's federation organizations, in 2016, the "National Women's Federation Reform Plan" will "promote the universal establishment of women's councils in the 'women's homes' in urban and rural communities, and organize women to carry out deliberative and consultation activities such as citizen conventions and revisions of township rules and regulations" as one of the important contents, and promptly, efficiently and nearby consultation to resolve problems around women.
At present, there are more than 1 million women's organizations nationwide and more than 700,000 "women's homes". Grassroots women's organizations have updated their concepts, opened up ideas, performed their functions, and strengthened services, fully playing the role of a bridge and link between the Party and the government and the women, allowing women to demonstrate their responsibilities and actions in co-construction, co-governance and sharing.
is the smallest country, and there are tens of millions of countries. Over the past ten years, the Women's Federation has vigorously strengthened the construction of family civilization, carried out in-depth family education guidance services, and innovatively carried out activities such as finding the "most beautiful family", guiding women to lead family members to strive to be a good family, cultivate good family education, and cultivate good family style, and actively promote the core socialist values to take root in the family.
Zhejiang Women's Federation and Banks jointly launched the "Good Family Credit Loan" project, providing financial preferential services to all kinds of good families; Gansu Women's Federation raised funds to establish a "Women's Family Beauty Points Supermarket" in villages (communities) across the province, and mobilized women to participate in grassroots social governance in the form of points management...
In order to adapt to the new needs of the vast number of women and hundreds of millions of families in the new era, the Women's Federation organization integrates activities such as "good family style" construction and finding "the most beautiful family" with rural revitalization, grassroots governance, and entrepreneurship and innovation, promote the value orientation of "the virtue has gained", and promote the harmonious and beautiful small families and big society.
actively signed and ratified the United Nations international instruments in the field of gender equality, and made every effort to promote the process of gender equality and women's development; attach great importance to supporting foreign exchanges in the field of women, and maintain friendly exchanges with 145 countries, 429 women's organizations, institutions, and relevant UN organizations and specialized agencies; since 2015, the All-China Women's Federation has trained more than 2,000 women's backbones for more than 100 countries... Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Women's Federation has organized a series of bilateral and multilateral women's exchange activities, which has effectively enhanced the international influence of Chinese women and women's organizations.
After ten years, our country's women's cause has left a solid footprint for strides and improvements. Looking to the future, under the guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, my country's women's cause will surely write a new chapter.
Source/Xinhua News Agency (Xinhua News Agency reporters Huang Yue, Dong Boting, Zhang Yan)
Editing/Liao Yunqing
Review and Signing/Qiao Hong
Producer/Xi Shujun
